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 ·ELECTRONICBOX
·Execulink Telecom
1 edit | reply to disconnected
Re: How long will my (your) SSD last? I have 2 OCZ's (one Agility, not sure the other one). The first is almost a year old, the second close to that too.
Both have run well for me.
The one on my laptop has 5.7TB read, 3.3TB written, health 100%, 1854 hours in 1360 power ons. The boot drive on my HTPC has to have many more hours than that and maybe even more read/write because it was the only drive for a couple of months while I waited for WD RMA replacement drive (after the HDD failed in less than 2 years).
(My HTPC drive has 5483 hours and still 100%)
Both drives expected to last until summer 2021 |
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 OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | reply to trparky
The free version of SSD-Life doesn't support more then one SSD. In this system I have a 500GB Samsung 840 and a 120GB Corsair Force Series 3 (no HDD). The program only gives info on the Corsair though,..... |
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 Anonymous_AnonymousPremium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
kudos:2
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| ssd life does not work on samsung drives very well
Says data written GB 15,056,686,937
that is 15 exabyte 
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Well, does your car at least turn into something else? Sometimes I turn it into a trashcan. Hmm... |
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OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | said by Anonymous_:ssd life does not work on samsung drives very well
Says data written GB 15,056,686,937
that is 15 exabyte
Well I can't get it to work with the installed 500GB Samsung 840 SSD anyway unless maybe I switch its SATA port location. That's too much trouble IMO for a free program so I installed the Windows 8 version of Samsung's Magician Software v4.0 utilities. |
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 trparkyApple... YUMPremium,MVM
join:2000-05-24
Cleveland, OH
kudos:2 | Samsung's Magician Software v4.0 also works on Windows 7. |
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OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | Indeed it (v4.0) does as well as Win XP and Vista support. Version 3.2, the only other version visible on the support page, does not have Windows 8 support though. |
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 MxxCon
join:1999-11-19
Brooklyn, NY | reply to Ghastlyone
Interesting that your drive 'worked' more and supposedly will live longer than mine. 
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Anonymous_AnonymousPremium
join:2004-06-21
127.0.0.1
kudos:2 Reviews:
·RoadRunner Cable
1 edit | reply to Octavean
that software is not usable my drive since it's OEM,model 810 is not compatible with that software
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Well, does your car at least turn into something else? Sometimes I turn it into a trashcan. Hmm... |
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OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | Too bad, maybe try another utility,..... |
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 Rook008Miles To GoPremium
join:2002-02-05
Far Rockaway, NY
 ·Verizon FiOS
·RoadRunner Cable
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said by MxxCon:Interesting that your drive 'worked' more and supposedly will live longer than mine. Now I'm curious about that too...
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MxxCon
join:1999-11-19
Brooklyn, NY | Hmmm.. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskInfo 5.4.0 (C) 2008-2013 hiyohiyo »crystalmark.info/
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(1) OCZ-VERTEX4
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Model : OCZ-VERTEX4
Firmware : 1.5
Serial Number :
Disk Size : 128.0 GB (8.4/128.0/128.0)
Buffer Size : >= 32767 KB
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 250069680
Rotation Rate : ---- (SSD)
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : ACS-2
Minor Version : ----
Transfer Mode : SATA/600
Power On Hours : 995 hours
Power On Count : 81 count
Host Writes : 1587 GB
Temparature : Unknown
Health Status : Good (100 %)
Features : S.M.A.R.T., 48bit LBA, NCQ, TRIM
APM Level : ----
AAM Level : ----
-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 __6 __0 __0 000000000006 Raw Read Error Rate
03 100 100 __0 000000000000 Spin Up Time
04 100 100 __0 000000000000 Start Stop Count
05 100 100 __0 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count
09 100 100 __0 0000000003E3 Power-On Hours
0C 100 100 __0 000000000051 Power Cycle Count
E8 100 100 __0 0000C66617C8 Total Count of Write Sectors
E9 100 __0 __0 000000000064 Remaining Life--
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 hitachi369Embrace Your RightsPremium
join:2001-10-03
Grand Rapids, MI
kudos:4
·AT&T U-Verse
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working mine like a dog. |
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 Dream KillerGraveyard ShiftPremium
join:2002-08-09
Forest Hills, NY
kudos:1
·Verizon FiOS
| reply to trparky
My X-25 G1 that I bought when it came out at the end of 2008 is still showing up as "99%" health in crystal disk info. It's in a frequently used gaming desktop with lots of reformats, used as a scratch disk for photoshop as well as multiple on-off cycles during the day. I didn't optimize the OS in anyway beyond the default "set the bios to AHCI". |
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 DustynPremium
join:2003-02-26
Ontario, CAN
kudos:10 | reply to Anonymous_
said by Anonymous_:that software is not usable my drive since it's OEM,model 810 is not compatible with that software
Some magician! |
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trparkyApple... YUMPremium,MVM
join:2000-05-24
Cleveland, OH
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Time Warner Cable
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Milestone - 1024 Hours (March 11, 2013)
The drive is now up to 1024 hours and at that point the power went out in the lab due to a snow storm. While unplanned, the power outage worked out well for our test because we needed to power down the drive in order to test the transistor gates. As NAND flash wears the gate walls thin and the ability for the SSD to hold a charge diminishes. We can now program the host system to power down every 1,000 hours and keep power from the SSD for 72 hours. As of hour 1024, the Samsung 840 250GB SSD is perfectly fine.
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 Vchat20Landing is the REAL challengePremium
join:2003-09-16
Columbus, OH | reply to trparky
So to add to this, my drive dropped to 99% health yesterday according to SSDLife and has over tripled it's TEC date. Obviously I don't expect it to last to this exact date and more than likely will replace it before its original 2021 TEC. |
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OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Octavean
said by Octavean:The free version of SSD-Life doesn't support more then one SSD. In this system I have a 500GB Samsung 840 and a 120GB Corsair Force Series 3 (no HDD). The program only gives info on the Corsair though,.....
I installed a dual 2.5" rack in a 3.5" bay which makes the SSD units more or less removable. So now I guess I can use SSD-Life on the Samsung. It was a cheap rack though and it will cut the speed down from SATA 6G to SATA 3G but I knew that going in. |
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 kingdome74Emotionally UnavailablePremium
join:2002-03-27
Syracuse, NY
kudos:2
·Verizon FiOS
·RoadRunner Cable
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My baby Adata |
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OctaveanPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-31
New York, NY
kudos:1 | reply to trparky
I guess SSDLife doesn't like the dual 2.5" rack my Samsung 840 is installed in. Maybe that is why there isn't much info. I'll try it without the rack down the line. |
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 koitsuPremium,MVM
join:2002-07-16
Mountain View, CA
kudos:19 | The issue is not with your "rack". The issue is with SSDLife itself. The software is badly designed and makes stupid "logic decisions" regarding how to calculate drive ""lifetime"".
If you read their wonderfully-hidden-with-a-small-font "how do you calculate it?" page, while rolling your eyes are all the vague/ambiguous generalisations they state, you'll see that for SSDs they make the blind/moronic assumption that every SSD provides SMART attribute 0xE9 / 233. Samsung SSDs do not provide this attribute, and that's perfectly fine, because such an attribute really doesn't mean anything (especially considering how SMART and its behaviour is a black box / entirely dependent upon the coders who wrote the firmware).
This is just another example of mainstream software authors thinking they've come up with a clever way to calculate something that cannot be calculated. As I've said for years, repeat ad nauseum: SMART attributes have to be decoded by a human being who has familiarity with them and the exact model of drive; software cannot do this reliably. Do not believe the hype.
"Racks" or "enclosures" (specifically non-USB enclosures, i.e. attached via native SATA or eSATA) do not get in the way of SMART pass-through. It's when there is a converter chip (ex. USB-SATA bridges) or badly-engineered RAID controllers involved where you can potentially lose SMART visibility. Some such bridges and controllers provide "partial" SMART pass-through too (attributes can be obtained, but things like the SMART error log, SCT log, self-test log, etc. are rejected. Great firmware/BIOS design on the part of the hardware vendors! Sigh...)
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